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Goblin Kingdom – Volume 1 Chapter 60: Bow and Pride
Posted on July 25, 2016 Author JigglypuffPosted in Goblin Kingdom9 Replies
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Goblin Name Cheat Sheet:
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[Goblin] Gi Ga
A goblin rare. He evolved in chapter 37 after hunting with Gi Ga. He has the <<Meld>> skill which makes him great for scouting.
Goblin Rare. From Gi Gu's Faction. He is known for his <<Wide-Open Eyes>> which allows him to see his opponent's weakness.
Goblin Rare. From Gi Ga's faction. Notable skills are <<Knowledge of the Spear>> and <<Unreasonably Stubborn>>.
Goblin Rare. The goblin favored by the Mad God (Zu Oru). Has the <<Mad Dog>> skill.
Receiver of the title, The First ArcherGadieta. He is the second in command in Ganra, one of the four tribes known for their rare ability amongst goblins to use bows.
Chapter 60: Bow and Pride
Class Lord; Horde Chief
Possessed Skills Ruler of the Horde; Insurgent Will; Overpowering Howl; Swordsmanship B+; Insatiable Desire; King's Soul; Ruler's Wisdom I; Eyes of the Blue Snake; Dance at Death's Border; Red Snake's Eye; Magic Manipulation; Soul of a Crazed Warrior; Third Impact (The Third Chant); Instinct; Ruler's Wisdom II;
Divine Protection Goddess of the UnderworldAltesia
Suboridnate Beasts High Kobold Hasu; (Lv1) Gastra (Lv20) Cynthia (Lv20) Orc King Bui; (Lv36)
After literally bathing in the blood of the remaining Gaidga, we returned to their cave.
"Did anything change?"
"Nothing in particular."
Gi Go Amatsuki, the sword god's blessed one, went out to meet me. As I nodded to him, I left the security of the surrounding area to him in order to let the other goblins rest.
He left the cave with his men. There was a visible trace of weariness on him, but he didn't show even a fraction of discontent to my command.
I went to one of the rooms of the cave and called out to Gilmi. "This is a bit sudden, but are there any core members that could be moved to Ganra Village?"
I want to preserve the fighting force that hasn't participated in the war yet. I want to keep their strength for defending the Ganra Village.
"There is. About 30 goblins all in all."
30, huh.
If so, then the problem should come down to the distance between Ganra and Gaidga. There's also the speed of the Paradua riders to take into consideration.
I should be letting the tired goblins rest. If possible, I'd like to keep Ganra safe, but the Paradua riders are an issue.
According to the wind magician, Gi Do, they were attacked a half day's distance from Gaidga's cave. We know that Paradua's Village should be a 2 day's distance to the south. But if so, then it doesn't add up.
Although of course, these are all just speculations, but still…
Regardless, there are two issues we're facing now.
The first issue is the possibility that they're already en route for this village.
But if so then why would they stop pursuing us? We even stirred up a blood bath with the Gaidga, and yet they're just quietly watching.
No matter how you look at it, it's strange.
The other issue is whether the Paradua moved right after receiving the report of our attack on the Gaidga Village.
If so, then the speed of the Paradua riders are far beyond our expectations. To think they could actually shorten a two-day distance into half a day. What frightening speed.
At this rate, the only possible result is us being on the receiving end of a surprise attack.
And that's with us being inside the forest. In here, there are many trees, and there aren't any roads being maintained. This isn't the kind of place a horse could leisurely move around in, yet as long as there's an animal trail, the rider-beasts of Paradua could leave us in the dust.
While we're still moving, they can move with those beasts of theirs at double our speed, and tear apart at our weak spots.
In other words, guerilla warfare. They could easily avoid a direct confrontation and slowly whittle down our forces using their superior mobility.
If that's what they're aiming for, this battle is going to be tough. Of course, when I say weakness, I'm referring to the Ganra Village.
I should prepare for the worst.
I'll have to put my hopes in the wounded Gi Za.
We stirred up a bloodbath yet they let us go, so they might not know about our main force's movements.
"…Gilmi. Don't leave any regrets."
Gilmi seemed to have remembered something when I said that as he gritted his teeth and nodded.
"Please don't mind our sacrifice."
Looks like he knows his place. In order to win the trust of the stronger ally, you must first pay the price with your own men's blood.
Seeing him so tragically resolute left me with no more words to say.
"I want to lure out Paradua and Gaidga, so you'll have to play the decoy."
"…I shall fulfill this task even at the cost of my life."
To win against an opponent with superior mobility while protecting the Ganra village at the same time… I can think of no other way.
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The young goblin who was also Aluhaliha's right hand man, Hal, was the one chosen to be the messenger.
"Have you memorized the message?"
"Yes, father."
It was common for the younger goblins to lovingly refer to Aluhaliha as father, but even then he couldn't help but worry for Hal seeing how obedient he was.
If the worst case were to happen, Hal would definitely be killed.
But despite knowing that, somewhere in his heart, he believed that that three-horned gray goblin wouldn't do something so cowardly.
"Good, now go!"
"I shall!"
They met their spears, and Hal left.
Telling the boorish Gaidga to send a messenger is the same thing as telling them to fight, so if a messenger were to be sent, it had to come from Paradua.
There's no reasons to feel shame for sending one's loved one straight into danger. This was war after all.
Paradua's riders will not fear in the face of war.
It is because of that very pride that they are able to crush their enemies.
But this time was different. Because the strategies they will be using are not fitting for the riders of Paradua.
"This debt is big, Rashka."
Although he was old, his will had not once weakened. If they were to win, yet still fail to receive their king, even if it was the strongest of the four tribes, Aluhaliha would not simply let it pass.
He would take the bridle of his beast and strike with his spear.
As he watched Hal's back disappear into the depth of the forest, Aluhaliha grit his teeth.
Gilmi led the elites of Ganra to the Paradua's territory. They gaudily ran, making sure that their movement could be heard throughout the forest.
The 15 goblins following Gilmi had already been informed beforehand of the plan. They knew exactly how dangerous this mission was.
But they had to do this. They had to take the risk and show their power in the most dangerous place in order to raise their standing before the Chief of the East. In so doing, Narsa's position would change for the better.
The law of the jungle was true for everyone; the goblins were no exception.
Although Gilmi didn't know what the East Chief was thinking, at the very least, he understood that as long as he could make him understand that Ganra wasn't worth trifling with, their future could be secured.
"…Something's ahead."
The sound of a giant beast parting the trees, rustling their leaves, reached Gilmi's ears.
"Wait for my command, draw you bows," Gilmi ordered without uttering a word. At the same time, they immediately split and hid behind the shadows of the trees.
Although they were decoys, they couldn't openly show that to their enemies. They had to fight at full force.
The bow sounded as the string was drawn to the limit, Gilmi's consciousness focused.
What appeared was a lone rider. It was a young goblin. And on his spear was a white cloth, which meant that he was a messenger. The respected title of The First ArcherGadieta as it implied meant that its bearer would be the first archer to shoot, thus deciding who the target of the horde was.
At the arrival of the messenger, Gilmi drew his bow to its limits and stared daggers at him.
"I know you're there, goblins of Ganra and the outsiders! I am the fifth spear of Paradua, Hal! I've come here as a messenger!"
As the beast spread on its four legs, the young goblin loudly spoke. He was the very image of the prideful Paradua.
"Show yourselves!"
"Keep your bows on the ready."
Gilmi wordlessly ordered his men with a sign, and then he walked toward Hal.
"I am the First ArcherGadieta of Ganra, Gilmi!"
Gilmi's entrance was also grand. When Hal moved his gaze that had been looking all over just now to Gilmi, he was relieved.
"Ho! So you're the first archer of Ganra! I have no complaints then. I've come here to pass a message from our chieftain, Master Aluhaliha!"
Gilmi quietly listened.
To summarize the contents, the Paradua goblins are asking for a pact of nonaggression and the release of the Gaidga prisoners.
"Think carefully." Hal struck his spear on the ground and folded his arms.
He was a gutsy goblin no doubt.
Countless bows were aimed at him, yet despite being alone in the face of countless arrows, he was still able to keep up his attitude. He was not a common goblin.
Gilmi was vexed.
Why did he have to fight with such a youngster?
This young goblin would one day carry Paradua on his back. In Master Gilan's in time, he would become a hope not just for Paradua but for all the four goblin tribes.
But despite thinking that, Gilmi already knew what his decision was. It was too late for peace. Even if he accepted, how was he supposed to answer to the Chief of the East?
We've resolved our differences, so just please go home. There's no way he could say that.
The Eastern Chief has already suffered some losses in this war after all.
"I understand the conditions, but, I, Ra Gilmi, have made up my mind!"
In that instant, he drew his bow to the limit and released it, letting loose the bow toward a single point.
The bow released, only the sound of the wind being cut was left. It flew straight into the handle of Hal's buried spear. What frightening skill.
"Pass this on to Lord Aluhaliha and Lord Rashka. We will not retreat. If you're planning to surrender, do it quickly. Otherwise, their opponent shall be I, Ra Gilmi of Ganra!"
Hal glanced at the arrow pierced upon his spear. As he took his spear, he removed the bow and snapped it.
"I have received your response!" Hal waved his spear, then he left as he hung his spear by his back.
To that goblin's back, disappearing deep into the forest, Gilmi quietly mumbled.
"Would you think me weak for not shooting at him now, Lord Gi Za?"
First think, then act. But should you fail to produce the best results, everything will be meaningless. Those words struck at Gilmi's chest like a fish's bone.
Pricha chumhiran says:
Loving this :)……….thxs 😀
Sura says:
ryouha26 says:
OP lvl 10 MC XD
The more I imagine how the MC looks like the more I think he looks like a Maou
Thnx for the chappy~ Nanodesu~
Lemme Peeka Chu (MemeKachu) says:
Hal glanced at the arrow pierced upon his spear. As he took his spear, he removed the -bow and snapped it.
– he removed the -arrow
Azmi Noor says:
Ah you right, but my head autocorrect it so not a big prob
The title of First Archer is truly a title of great honor!
What other goblin would fight by firing off a new bow with each salvo! ;^)
APICHAD NAKBURIN says:
Reading while cuddled in Bed says:
*"Would you think of me as weak for not shooting at him just now, Lord Gi Za?"
Arrow not Bow.


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FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL: SICKEST SERIAL KILLERS
Nov 8, 2014 @ 23:42PM
From the darkest moments of criminal history a TRUE CRIME roundup of the most vile serial killers that make Charles Manson seem a puppy dog.
Richard Trenton Chase:
While many crime buffs may not be familiar with the name Richard Trenton Chase, this American serial killer was evil enough to earn the nickname "The Vampire of Sacramento" due to his bloody killing spree during a month in the 1970s where he drank the blood of his six victims and ate their flesh, according to the TruTV Crime Library.
Powered by the highly irrational belief that he needed to prevent the Nazis from turning his blood into powder through poison, Chase made his first kill in a drive-by shooting on December 29, 1977 when he gunned down a 58-year-old engineer. His next victim was far more cold-blooded as he broke into the home of a pregnant woman, shot her dead, had sex with the mutilated corpse, and then bathed in her blood. Several similarly graphic killings soon occurred, the worst being of a 22-month old boy whose internal organs he ate before disposing of the body at a nearby church.
His bizarre choice of burial place led to Chase's arrest when a witness saw him leaving the scene and police found fingerprints and shoe-prints. He was found guilty of six counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. The cannibal's fellow inmates were so scared of his flesh-eating fetish that they tried to convince him to commit suicide, which he seemingly did on December 26, 1980 by overdosing on antidepressants.
Jeffrey Dahmer:
Desperate for company, Jeffrey Dahmer became one of the country's most notorious serial killers when he murdered at least 17 young men between 1978 and 1991 after inviting them into his home. The Wisconsin native's first murder occurred when he was just 18 when he picked up a hitchhiker and killed him because he "didn't want him to leave." In 1988, Dahmer was arrested for sexually fondling a 13-year-old Laotian boy, but despite serving 10 months in a work camp there was no sex registry at the time, and he returned to oblivion after serving five years probation.
The compulsion to kill haunted and his methods of murder escalated to include rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism. The lonely predator would lure his victims into his now infamous Milwaukee apartment where he would drug them, before eventually getting the idea of creating "zombies" or submissive, eternally youthful sexual partners by drilling holes in their skulls and injecting hydrochloric acid into their frontal lobes.
After one would-be victim escaped, police searched the apartment and made the grisly discovery of severed heads, multiple photographs of murdered victims and human remains, severed hands and penises, and human remains in the fridge.
Dahmer pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but a 1992 trial found him guilty of 15 counts of murder and he was sentenced to life for each. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage, Wisconsin.
Ted Bundy:
Dashing and charismatic, Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy won the trust of his female victims before snuffing out their lives. He claims to have committed up to 30 homicides across seven states between 1974 and 1978. The dark-haired seductive serial killer commonly approached his victims feigning injury, before overpowering them, luring them into his Volkswagen and bludgeoning them with a crowbar and taking them to a secluded spot. He often returned to the crime scene for several hours, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses and is said to have kept the decapitated heads of some women at his apartment for months.
Self-described as "the most cold-blooded son of a b***h you'll ever meet," Bundy was initially arrested in Utah in 1975 for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault, but it soon became clear that he was responsible for a much longer list of grisly crimes across the country.
While facing murder charges in Colorado, he successfully pulled off two dramatic escapes and committed multiple assaults and three more murders on the run, before being recaptured in 1978 in Florida, where he received three death sentences in two separate trials. The sadistic sociopath was eventually given the electric chair in the Sunshine State's Raiford Prison in 1989 at age 42.
Dennis Rader:
The acronym BTK is as far from a BLT as you can get, instead of a juicy sandwich it stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill," the favorite activity of serial killer Dennis Rader, who used his M.O. on at least 10 victims in and around Wichita, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Rader came up with the eerie shortcut in letters to police and news media bragging about the killing sprees – calling his victims "projects" and describing their deaths as "putting them down" like euthanizing animals.
The organized murderer carried a "hit kit" in a briefcase or a bowling bag containing guns, tape, rope and handcuffs, along with "hit clothes," that he would ditch right after the crime. Rather than a quick death, Rader took pleasure in taunting his victims by strangling them until they lost consciousness, reviving them and then strangling them again, because the near-death experience reportedly sexually aroused him.
He got away with his sadistic acts until his ego got the better of him and after a lengthy hiatus of boasting letter writing, he put pen to paper again in 2004 and was eventually arrested a year later. The attention-hungry killer said he re-sparked communication after a book and TV show came out on his killings, and because his children had grown up and he was bored with too much time on his hands. He was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences adding up to 175 years with no chance of parole and is currently at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas.
Andrei Chikatilo:
Known as the Butcher of Rostov and The Red Ripper, Andrei Chikatilo terrorized the Ukraine for 12 years where he amassed 53 victims. His first documented murder occurred in 1978 in the small mining town of Shakhty, near Rostov, when he lured a nine-year-old girl into a house planning to rape her. When she struggled, Andrei stabbed her and his sexual arousal made him decide he could only be satisfied while slashing women and children to death. Another man was arrested and executed for the crime, and thus began Chikatilo's lifetime of horror.
He began approaching prostitutes, homeless people or runaways at bus or railway stations and enticing them to follow him to a nearby forest where they met their gruesome fate. Unable to get an erection, he would go into a murderous rage that was hidden from the headlines by the state-controlled media due to the Soviet Union's opinion that mass murder was a capitalist notion.
Giving in to his sick compulsion for over a decade, he was finally caught for good after he was spotted by police surveillance at the Donleskhoz Station. After initially pleading his innocence, he eventually confessed and his trial in 1992 became the first major media event of liberalized post-Soviet Russia, during which he was kept in a cage in the corner of the courtroom to prevent being attacked by victims' families. On October 15 of that year he was found guilty of 52 out of 53 murder charges and sentenced to death for each. He was executed by a single gunshot to the head on February 14, 1994.

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Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
The original dream of a great cathedral in Spokane came to The Right Reverend Edward Makin Cross in 1924, shortly after he arrived to be the new missionary bishop. Together with architect Harold C. Whitehouse, the Bishop began to plan for a gothic cathedral atop the hill. The dream became reality within the lifetime of Bishop Cross, the only time known that a major cathedral has been mostly completed within the lifetime of the founding bishop.
The Cathedral has classical Gothic architecture with a strong French influence. The structure is solid masonry with exterior stone quarried near Tacoma, Washington; the interior of the nave is of sandstone from Idaho, and the remainder of the interior is of Indiana limestone. No structural wood or steel were used.
Construction began in 1925, with the dedication of the first section of the church on October 20, 1929, but construction lagged during the Great Depression and World War II. Starting again in 1948, gradually more sections were added. By 1961, the building assumed its present form.
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Will There Be a Backlash Against Evangelicals?
KEVIN HARRIS: Hey, there! It's Reasonable Faith with Dr. William Lane Craig. Come on in. I'm Kevin Harris. It is so interesting to hear this podcast today because we recorded this podcast right before the pandemic broke out. When you listen to it now you are thinking, Man, if we only knew what was coming. But still, some of the things that we are going to talk about today are still very pertinent to what is going on, they have just been overshadowed by some of the things in the news. The news changes every day, so it is kind of hard to keep up. Dr. Craig and Jan are doing well. We are going to be getting an update from him very soon right here on this podcast. So stay tuned for that. In the meantime, please go to ReasonableFaith.org. Any gift that you give is so appreciated to help us continue the work of Reasonable Faith all over the world. Please do so. Go to ReasonableFaith.org. You can donate right there. Thanks for being here.
Bill, I want to go on Facebook and look at other social media. There are a lot of people who want to know what you think about current politics and social issues. Even though you are a philosopher and theologian, they really want to get your take on some things. Boy, when we get into politics, that can get sticky. They want to know what you think about President Trump – why so many evangelicals tend to support him. But I think that the big question is: Is there a possibility of a backlash against evangelical Christians because of their support of Trump because we are so divided in the country?
DR. CRAIG: This is a real worry. Recently, Mark Galli of Christianity Today wrote an editorial in which he predicted such a backlash. He argued that because of the way in which evangelicals are cozying up to Donald Trump (despite the man's personal character and past) that is going to backfire on evangelicals in the future and that there is going to be a reaction against them, turning away from Christianity, so that in the end he fears that Trump's presidency and the evangelical alliance with him may be to the detriment to the cause of Christ in our country. That is a really good question that we all need to ask ourselves, I think.
KEVIN HARRIS: Why is there so much support in the first place if it is so controversial and if it could cause backlash? Why do you think it is that evangelicals by-and-large really do support him?
DR. CRAIG: I think for the most part it's because Trump supports the policies that they believe in and that therefore they will support him because of the overriding issue of policy matters on which they are in accord. I think that evangelicals really came of age politically as a result of the Carter presidency. When Jimmy Carter ran for president as a Democrat, so many evangelicals were excited because they said, He's one of us. He's a Southern Baptist. He teaches a Sunday School class. He talks about being born again. I remember at the time being excited that I could pray for a president now who was my brother in Christ and who was in tune with God and that God would be a work in his life and directing him. So many evangelicals, I think, were very enthusiastic about President Carter and his candidacy because of his evident Christian faith. That led to then a bitter disappointment with Carter when he turned out to be in their view weak and ineffectual. He turned out to be just a one-term president. And instead Ronald Reagan was elected (a divorcee, which at that time was scandalous), not to all signs an evangelical Christian himself, but who at least gave lip service to the causes that evangelicals believed in. I think what evangelicals saw at that time is that it really isn't important what a person's personal beliefs are. What matters is what policies do they support and push. For all of his personal deficits, I think evangelicals have recognized that Trump has been ardently supportive of pro-life causes and appointing conservative justices to the courts – two justices now to the Supreme Court. If he gets a second term he may get more Supreme Court appointments. It could turn the court around. I agree with Joe Biden when he says that a Trump reelection could change the fundamental culture of the United States into the future – a change that Biden would not welcome, but which evangelicals, I think, would welcome because it would perhaps overturn Roe v. Wade and abortion-on-demand and send the issue back to the states where the people and their elected representatives could decide what they want to do about this issue. So Trump has been ardently pro-life. Secondly he has supported religious liberty. You think of the overstepping of its bounds in Colorado of the court that ruled that a baker had to put a pro-homosexual or gay message on a wedding cake that he had created when he said, No, this violates my free speech. I cannot be compelled to utter speech in the form of the decorated cake that is against my beliefs. And Trump has supported religious liberty against the encroachments of political correctness which are very strong in our culture. And then religious persecution. Look at the way Trump has called out nations that are involved in religious persecution and not just of Christians. He has called out China (with whom he's trying to negotiate a trade deal, for goodness sake!) for their atrocities of religious persecution. They're throwing thousands of Muslim Uighurs into concentration camps in China. Trump has had the courage to call them out on this despite needing a trade deal with China. Tremendous courage. So over and over again, evangelicals have seen that for all his deficits Trump is supporting the policies that they like. At the recent presidential prayer breakfast, one evangelical pastor said, It's unlike anything that many of us have seen. We don't agree with everything he says or does, but we are thankful for his policy for being pro-life and for traditional family. One person rather colorfully put it. He said, As long as Trump is adopting pro-life policies, I don't care if he runs a dogfighting ring in his private life. That's a colorful way of saying that what really matters for supporting Trump would be the policies that he supports. I think it's for that reason that many evangelicals are supporting him even though he doesn't exemplify the sort of Christian character that they would hope for in a president.
KEVIN HARRIS: The left has to know that. They've got to know that it's the policies that evangelicals support. That we don't approve of him using profanity in the Oval Office and things like that (even though probably every president has, just not as quite as publicly). Or some of his colorful playboy past and things like that. They know that that's not why we applaud him or tend to applaud him as evangelicals. "Oh, we're glad he does that." No. No. Like you just said. But they have to know. But they still like to needle and really get in our faces about that.
DR. CRAIG: Well, I don't know. I've been asked this question by newspaper columnists and others. They seem genuinely baffled as to how evangelicals can support someone who is so contrary to Christian values in his personal life – so narcissistic and infantile and supporting gambling interests and meat-market beauty contests that Christians would not admire. But it's the policies that he supports. I think, as I say, as a result of the Carter presidency, Christians came to realize that it is the policies that really matter and not a person's personal religious life or convictions.
KEVIN HARRIS: There's a quote, and it's been attributed to Martin Luther but there's some dispute as to who actually said it, and it is, "I'd rather be ruled by a competent Turk than an incompetent Christian."
DR. CRAIG: Wow.
KEVIN HARRIS: A lot of people have put that in their biography. I've seen that quote for years. Because no matter who said it, it's a principle and sounds like what you're saying here.
DR. CRAIG: Yes, I think evangelicals have come to realize this, but that doesn't address the question that you began with, and that is: Will evangelicals cozying up to Trump cause a backlash against Christianity, and how can we prevent this from happening? I was recently on a panel discussion with one of my philosophy colleagues, and he said most passionately that university students today hate (and he emphasized it – hate) Christianity because of Christians' affiliation with Donald Trump. They see evangelicals as being in bed with the right-wing Republican party with Donald Trump, and they hate them for that. And it is an enormous obstacle to the reception of the Gospel. So how do we overcome that?
KEVIN HARRIS: Have you thought about what we do either to prevent a backlash or to deal with the backlash that is already starting to filter in?
DR. CRAIG: Yes. I wonder whether there is a backlash yet. I would like to see evidence of it. I think that there are fears of it. People worry. But so far I haven't seen it. I suspect that people are reacting to evangelical support of conservative policy positions like being against same-sex marriage or being pro-life, for example. And just taking those positions will alienate much of our culture. It's just almost unavoidable that on certain moral issues we are going to take positions that are countercultural as Christians. One is just going to have to accept that, and then try to minimize it in some way. Now, for my part, as a somewhat public figure, I have to remain a-political. I cannot be seen as endorsing a particular political candidate or party. What I can do is speak to issues like pro-life issues or sanctity of marriage. Those are ethical and spiritual issues to which I can speak forthrightly and have done so but without endorsing a particular political candidate or party. But for the average person, I think he needs to be engaged in political discussion and arguing with his friends and family members about which candidate to vote for and how one ought to cast his ballot. That's important for us as Christian citizens to be engaged in the political dialogue. I think that probably the best advice I could give would be to be balanced in our assessment of the president. To not be sycophants where we just applaud everything he does and believe everything about him, but to be measured in supporting certain policies but then in dissenting or denouncing certain behaviors or character flaws that we discern. I think that a good many evangelicals today will decry the president's personal behavior or character and yet at the same time support his policies because they believe ardently in pro-life issues, in religious liberty, and in religious freedom, and are against religious persecution. What we need to avoid, I think, was illustrated recently by the response of Jerry Falwell, Jr. to this Mark Galli editorial in Christianity Today in calling for Trump's impeachment. What Falwell did in response to this was terrifying to me. He basically said, Who are you to judge another person's character? That's pharisaical to say that someone else is behaving immorally. You're no better than they are. And Jesus calls upon us to not judge others. And I thought, for goodness sake, he's lapsed into "I'm okay, you're okay" kind of theology where this is usually the line of relativism – that you're not able to make moral judgments and therefore you shouldn't make moral judgments about the president's behavior. That kind of moral relativism, I think, is worse than the sort of failure to support the president. This kind of blind, relativistic justification for his being pro-Trump is disastrous for Christianity. This is a real danger that I would fear. So I would say let's be balanced in our assessment of the president.
KEVIN HARRIS: In conclusion, I would think that because this society is so divided right now (I've never seen anything like it in my lifetime) many are afraid that Christians will cave in to the culture rather than stand for these principles that you've asked us to stand for. You've made a point we can address issues and not people. So – what? – can we use our platform to do that? To speak to the issues despite personalities involved?
DR. CRAIG: Oh, absolutely. The issues are ethical and therefore transcendent and are not tied to particular political candidates.
KEVIN HARRIS: Paul said to speak the truth in love, so I suppose that we need a good dose of God's love when we do this.
DR. CRAIG: And a good dose of courage.[1]
[1] Total Running Time: 17:28 (Copyright © 2020 William Lane Craig)


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@G4C Here Are All Games for Change 2020 Award Winners
All images credit: Games for Change Festival
Yesterday evening, Games for Change honored the best social impact games and immersive experiences of the year and announced the recipients of the Vanguard Award, Industry Leadership Award, Giving Award & People's Choice Award.
And here are the winners - congrats to all:
Game of the Year and Most Innovative Game Awards
Dreams an ever-expanding game universe from Media Molecule, creators of Little Big Planet and Tearaway, where you can discover community-made games from around the world and learn to make your own.
Best Gameplay and People's Choice Awards
Sky: Children of the Light by thatgamecompany. Set in a wonderland above the clouds, Sky invites you and your friends to fly up to explore buried mysteries and rebuild a fallen kingdom.
Best Learning Game Award
Rabbids Coding, a fun educational game by Ubisoft that aims to teach children of all ages the basics of programming.
Most Significant Impact Award
Sea of Solitude, a 3D adventure from Jo-Mei, in which a young woman embarks on a journey trying to find why she turned into a monster.
Best Student Game
Resilience from Sungrazer Studio is a humanitarian sci-fi city-builder that fosters empathy for displaced people in refugee camps.
Best XR for Change Experience Award
The Holy City by Nimrod Shanit/Holy City VR is an exploration game of the city of Jerusalem.
Giving Award – Humble Bundle
Vanguard Award – Gordon Bellamy
Industry Leader Award - Microsoft


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The Pardes Kollel Experience
Posted on February 3, 2014 by Jeff Amshalem
Tags: activism / take action, appreciation / gratitude, authenticity, connection / disconnection, courses, faculty / Pardes teachers, Gemara / Talmud, halakha / Jewish law, IDF / Israel Defense Forces / Tzahahl, Jewish education, kollel, leadership, learning, modern Judaism, Pardes, Pardes Center for Jewish Educators (PCJE), potential, pride, Rabbi Daniel Roth, rabbinical student, Rav Daniel Landes, reflections / testimonials, relevance, Shira Hadasha, social justice, Yeshivat Hadar, Yeshivat Maharat, Yeshivat Talpiyot
This past week, while I was substitute teaching a halakhah class here at Pardes, I mentioned by way of introduction that as well as being a proud and very busy member of the Pardes Educators Program, I am also, in that context, a member of the Kollel here. People immediately asked, what is this Kollel we keep hearing about? Because I wanted to move on soon to the material, I kept my answer short: Kollels are traditionally small groups of advanced Talmud scholars who are supported by the community so they can continue learning even after reaching adulthood and starting families; the Pardes Kollel is a group of about 20 scholars with very diverse backgrounds, most of whom Rav Landes recruited from outside and brought into the Pardes community. This amazing group and the learning we share merit a longer explanation, though, which I'd like to give here for those who are interested.
People often ask if we're in the Kollel to study for rabbinic ordination. The answer for my hevruta (study partner) and me is yes – we plan to take exams from a prominent Israeli Rabbi; we are both returning to America at the end of the year to teach in Jewish day schools, and we feel that our Kollel learning as well as ordination will enable us to have a greater impact in that role. Similarly, two Kollel students received ordination last year from that rabbi; one is spending a year as Rav Landes' Kollel teaching assistant before setting out to teach in the States, and one is already there, teaching and mentoring other teachers.
Some of us joined the Kollel as part of another rabbinical program. One brought her background in theater and visual art to Hebrew College, and she now writes daily haikus about the Talmud and aims to stage theater productions of Jewish texts. Another, already a lawyer, plans to go on to study at Yeshivat Maharat, a four year program modeled on traditional rabbinic ordination programs that aims to train women to be halakhic and spiritual leaders for the orthodox community. One member, currently serving as an infantryman in the IDF, hopes to return to his learning at Yeshivat Har Etzion and pursue ordination by the Israeli chief rabbinate.
Most members, however, are not pursuing ordination. For some of them, that's because they already have it. One, who served as a rabbi in the IDF, currently runs programming at Moishe House Jerusalem, creating community around Jewish learning and celebration. Another received private ordination from her teacher and currently splits her time between pursuing a Ph.D. in Rabbinics and teaching at Yeshivat Hadar in New York.
This dedication to teaching, especially in such boundary-breaking institutions as Maharat and Hadar, is a common theme for the Kollel members. One of our members, in fact, is the rosh yeshiva there and a founder of Kehilat Shirah Hadashah here in Jerusalem, a model for prayer communities around the world; another actually co-founded Hadar before going on to found Yeshivat Talpiot, an egalitarian religious yeshiva, where yet another member is the director of community relations.
Many of our members are community activists as well: one works with Russian-speaking youth in Russia, Israel, and America; one is director of the Leadership Program at Encounter; another is a policy designer for the international aid community. Others embody the value of Torah Lishmah, studying with the goal of personal and communal, not professional, fulfillment: one is the founder of several Israeli start-ups and currently active in community-building; one is a statistician and researcher at prestigious Israeli institutions who, along the way, has fulfilled the requirements in a number of areas for rabbinic ordination (though she did not seek it); another, a student of Professors Nechama Leibowitz and Ezra Melamed and a long-time member of the Advanced Talmud Program at Matan, regularly shares stories of growing up in the Lower East Side and asking the Rav Moshe Feinstein for halakhic advice.
I could write an essay about each of these Kollel members, but in the interest of space maybe a quick run-down of the numbers might give some sense of the amount of experience, learning, and talent in the room: we have 3 rabbis, 5 rabbinical students, 2 lawyers, 5 doctorates, 14 masters degrees, an IDF rabbi, medic, counselor and infantryman, and one Fulbright scholar, with a total of more than two centuries of full time Jewish learning (beyond my ability to calculate), dedicated to helping the Jewish people on 5 different continents.
This year we're learning Talmud Hullin and the Halakhic commentaries in the area known as Issur veHeter. The real topic and interest is understanding the process of law and legal decision making. Other topics such as identity formation, community values and moral conflict are part of the mix. While changes in the way we act mean that one understanding or method doesn't always hold, a second, often discarded reason can be useful. When we learn a point of Jewish law, we learn it from the Mishna and Gemara through the Rishonim and Aharonim to contemporary poskim (halakhic decisors), with lots of stops along the way to consider the way the law was derived from the sources, the development it underwent over time and across cultures, the different shittot or methodologies being used, and the cultural, theological, and of course halakhic ramifications. While the words we use might sound technical (and they are), the concepts are as broad as can be.
How we do it:
To prepare the shiur is tremendously challenging. The material is difficult and enormous in context. Possibilities of interpretation are manifold. My fellow students are bright and articulate; and there is great discussion and greater argumentation.
One year, under the leadership of Rabbi Dr. Daniel Roth, the Kollel created an entire curriculum based on his pioneering methodology, which views Talmud as a method of constructive conflict and mediation. That curriculum is now being used by graduates of the Pardes Educators Program teaching in America. Likewise, one of our projects this year is a weekly podcast teaching Maimonides' Mishneh Torah – while the explicit topic is blessing, the rotation of Kollel members teaching it brings perspectives ranging from theater to political activism to Hasidic thought. This resource will be available to the Jewish world, just a click away.
We are fortunate to have Rav Landes giving the class. He was given semicha by his mentor Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and has taught the Kollel shiur for many years. He was previously RAM (Rosh Metivta) at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles, taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, served as rabbi of a major synagogue and sat on the Los Angeles Beit Din (all simultaneously). He brings all of these experiences to the class.
Why I'm a part of it:
I for one feel confident that after leaving the Kollel I will be able go on to learn other areas of halakhah in the same depth as Issur veHeter, now that I have "learned how to learn" at such a level, and to use that learning not only as a halakhic resource for the community on such matters integral to Jewish, and for that matter general social life, including the broader demands of living just, rich, and connected lives ourselves and passing them on to the next generation.
To me, the Kollel is the ultimate realization of the Pardes vision and mission. To give one example, take my hevruta, who came to Pardes four years ago, unable even to recite the Hebrew alphabet – this summer, God willing, he will leave Israel a rabbi, ready to bring his learning and vision back to American day schools, thanks to a gritty dedication to learning and the amazing support of Pardes' teachers. Because of stories like this, I think of the Kollel as an embryo of all the change I want to see in the Jewish world: more involvement, more connection, more justice, and all of it based on deep and authentic Jewish learning.


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Elsevier takes over Mendeley: And you, what do you think?
As the takeover raises questions, the startup seems rather satisfied with its lot.
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Anyone interested in Open Access or scientific publishing has already heard the news: Elsevier has just officially taken over Mendeley, the platform dedicated to bibliographic reference management. Since Tuesday morning, this news has been causing quite a fuss on scientific networks and in the media interested in this issue. The reactions are mostly negative. The very name "Elsevier" sounds like scary music in a horror movie. Your heart starts racing just hearing it. You know something bad is about to happen. Is this hostility totally justified? Let's take a look at the facts.
This article is a translation of "Elsevier rachète Mendeley : et vous, que ferez-vous ?" by Timothée Froelich.
The big, bad publisher
In January 2013, there were rumors circulating about Elsevier taking over Mendeley. Elsevier is one of the three giants of scientific publishing. It is also the most violently and frequently criticized for various reasons: its constantly increasing prices, its commercial policies, the sometimes-unethical use of its profits, and many other tricks (ghostwriting/ghost authoring, articles presenting an obvious conflict of interest, etc.).
For a few years, and with the growing importance of Open Access, Elsevier, just like most of the other big scientific publishers, has deployed significant resources to improve its image. So, what is this takeover all about?
The announcement of the takeover
On April 9th, Mendeley and Elsevier officially announced the operation, estimated at between $69 and $100 million according to TechCrunch. This sum is equivalent to 70-100 times the turnover of the small company. The same day, Mendeley published on its blog a joyful post announcing the happy event. The title is pretty clear: "Team Mendeley is joining Elsevier. Good things are about to happen!" Along with the message, a family photo with the 50 members of the company:
The Mendeley team (Source: Flickr)
Mendeley is a startup created in 2008. Its bibliographic reference management software has over 2 million users, who also interact thanks to the social functionalities this exchange platform provides. Mendeley is one of the tools for research that we listed in our article The new digital tools for scientific research. Although not the most open tool ever, Mendeley's goal is obviously to promote exchanges between researchers. It is a sharing tool that always supported Open Access and Open Science.
Some feel offended, even betrayed
Personally, I heard the news on a mailing list dedicated to Open Science. On the very day, articles were published on TechCrunch for example, but also on Financial Times, The Guardian, and on the Herald Online. The reactions did not take long to come: "I quit Mendeley because I don't want to give my data to Elsevier", "I use Mendeley, and I fear the upcoming changes."
In a previous article on MyScienceNews (Social Networks for Scientists), we told you about Elsevier's own scientific social network, SciVal, and its free version BioMedExpert. The publishing company also possesses its own bibliographic research sites: Scopus and ScienceDirect. So why did the publisher invest so much money? What interest does it see? Is it, as the website says, to enhance its offer of source exchanges and bibliometrics? To improve its image? Or maybe to eliminate competitors who are too "Open", as some suggest?
Mendeley cannot fix Elsevier's reputation. Elsevier published fake journals, backed SOPA, uses bundles to screw scholars/libraries. Too evil
— danah boyd (@zephoria) April 9, 2013
Enthusiastic explanations from the founders
Users of Mendeley can share references, but also files. It has sometimes been considered a counterforce, short circuiting traditional scientific publishing. Why, then, join the most hated scientific publisher in academia?
In response to this question, rather than keeping quiet, the members of Mendeley gave interviews. The long and very comprehensive post published on their blog explains that Elsevier is a large company of 7,000 employees, including, like everywhere, some good and some less good. The post goes on to assure its users that Elsevier has often collaborated successfully with Mendeley and that the publisher often promoted them. It cites the time when the publisher, terminating its own bibliography management service, made its user data compatible with Mendeley, suggesting that its members join the free platform.
On several occasions after the embargo was lifted, the founder of Mendeley, Victor Henning, spoke up in order to reassure his users. In all his speeches, he insisted that he trusts Elsevier completely and that their partnership will not degrade the quality of Mendeley's offer. For him, this new situation will give the startup the means to focus on its objectives in a very independent way and without being forced to monetize its services.
These communication efforts were apparently fruitful, as much more mixed or positive reactions have since flourished on the web.
And what do you think?
We would be very interested to know your opinions on the matter. Is Elsevier trying to assuage its conscience or to adapt its approach to the needs and the demands of the academic world? Will the fact that Elsevier owns Mendeley change your opinion of this actually very useful software?
Place your bets, all comments are welcome!
To find out more:
On The Scholarly Kitchen, "A Matter of Perspective -- Elsevier Acquires Mendeley...or, Mendeley Sells Itself to Elsevier"
Open Access Science 2.0 Mendeley Elsevier Scientific Social Network


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La cuesta Zapata, a veces cordón de Zapata, es una inflexión de una rama de las sierras intermedias que al este de la ciudad de Casablanca (Chile) que divide las regiones de Santiago y Valparaíso.

Por ella pasaba el antiguo camino principal entre las capitales respectivas de las mismas provincias, formando zigzag en una y otra ladera de dicha rama. La cima de la cuesta alcanza á 620 metros sobre el nivel del Pacífico y dista 20 kilómetros al SE. de la ciudad de Casablanca y 21 al oeste de Curacaví. El camino por ella fue mejorado por el año 1793 bajo el gobierno de Ambrosio O'Higgins y la cuesta era conocida con su título, tomado del apellido de un regidor de Santiago que obtuvo posesión de las tierras contiguas desde 1543.

Véase también

 Ruta 68 (Chile)

Referencias
 Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Diccionario Geográfico de la República de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 1899.

Cordillera de la Costa (Chile)
Geografía de la Región de Valparaíso
Pasos de montaña de Chile


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Home » News » Tencent Pulls PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile From China, Replaces It With Gentler Game
Tencent Pulls PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile From China, Replaces It With Gentler Game
Last year, after the release of PUBG Mobile, Chinese megacorporation Tencent seemed extremely excited to get the game out in China and be able to monetize the game. What they didn't see coming was China's freeze on approving new video games back in March of last year, which put a halt to any dreams Tencent may have had about monetizing the game. While the freeze was lifted in December, PUBG Mobile was still sitting and waiting for approval to turn on monetization. Tencent, seemingly, has had enough and pulled the game down in favor of a more patriotic, gentler game called Game for Peace.
Game for Peace is very much like PUBG Mobile but with a few key differences to please regulators and approval boards in China. To begin with, Game for Peace is billed as a military training exercise for the People's Liberation Army Air Force; you may be shooting at people, but they're not dying. Instead, they get back up and wave goodbye, according to reviews on Chinese message board service Weibo. Similarly, there's no blood. You will also get reminders every three hours to remind you to quit playing for a while if you're under the age of 16.
They changed PUBG Mobile in China to comply with stricter game violence laws. Now when you 'kill' someone they give you a loot box and wave goodbye and honestly it's just so hilariously wholesome pic.twitter.com/Q5xkrtM0MA
The new replacement for PUBG has rocketed to the top of the iOS charts in terms of revenue in one day, indicating that this plan has actually worked out. Rather than cutting off their losses, Tencent has sort of performed plastic surgery on their losses and seems to have found a better path by just massaging the regulations. According to Reuters, Tencent's share has already increased 2 percent today.
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Q: Error jquery, when we use vue3-select2-component in laravel9, vue3 Using vue3-select2-component in vue3 and laravel9 displays this error:

Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: The requested module '/node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js?v=095d0e0d' does not provide an export named 'default' (at Select2.vue:8:8)

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Depending on what version of jquery you have installed (you can see it in the node_modules/jquery folder and its package.json file)
In the package.json file of node_modules/vue3-select2-component the version of jquery must be equal to what is installed.
    "jquery": "^3.6.0",

Of course, I have put these items in the app.blade.php file:
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Arnica oil is used for bruises and sprains but must not be used if the skin is broken. The sesquiterpene lactones found in the flowers help to reduce inflammation, swelling, and pain following traumatic injury. Use of the oil can greatly speed recovery time.
Contents: 1:3 extract of Arnica cordifolia flowers in organic cold pressed olive oil.
Caution: Not for internal use or on broken skin.


My fashion taste in 2018 is, not only a game of casualty, but an ode to sustainability. None of these clothes were new when I got them. Most of what I wore in 2018 were gifts from people who came up to me and said: "I had this at home, I don't wear it anymore. It made me think of you so here it is".
I regularly post about Instameets on Amsterdive's Instagram account (mostly in stories), but I started to wonder if people even knew what that was. As the name suggests, an instameet is an occasion when people who have an Instagram account get together. I mean, if you're an intense user of the platform, you have probably heard about these gatherings in the city / country where you live. Every place has their own insta community. But what exactly happens at such an insta meet?


17 amino acids in their free forms, including 9 essential amino acids, and 5-L-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP).
NAC, the acetyl derivative of L-cysteine, is more stable than L-cysteine, and can convert into L-cysteine after being absorbed. NAC is a natural source of sulfur for metabolism, and an antioxidant that supports glutathione synthesis.* NAC may be used instead of L-cysteine as an adjunct to Item #50130 Original AntiOx. Free form amino acid, high purity, well tolerated, and in tablet form to insure potency.


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Danuta Magdalena Kiełczewska (ur. 21 sierpnia 1945, zm. 22 lutego 2016 w Warszawie) – polska fizyczka, specjalistka w zakresie cząstek elementarnych i fizyki wysokich energii, profesor doktor habilitowany nauk fizycznych, profesor nadzwyczajna Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, twórczyni doświadczalnej fizyki neutrin w Polsce.

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Córka Witolda i Marii. Absolwentka i wieloletnia wykładowczyni Wydziału Fizyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz Instytutu Problemów Jądrowych im. Andrzeja Sołtana. W 1995 uzyskała stopień doktor habilitowanej nauk fizycznych w zakresie fizyki, specjalność: fizyka wysokich energii zaś w 2009 tytuł profesorski. W latach 80. odbywała staż naukowy na Uniwersytecie Kalifornijskim w Irvine w trakcie którego weszła w skład zespołu kierowanego przez Fredericka Reinesa. W trakcie prac w zespole brała udział zarówno w przygotowaniu jak i realizacji eksperymentu Super-Kamiokande i jako pierwszy polski badacz uczestniczyła w wyznaczaniu strumieni neutrin i w odkryciu zjawiska ich oscylacji (w 2015 wyniki eksperymentu stały się podstawą do przyznania Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie fizyki profesorowi Takaaki Kajita).

W 2006 została laureatką nagrody "Scopus Award for Scientific Achievement" dla najczęściej cytowanego w latach 2001–2005 polskiego naukowca.

Postanowieniem prezydenta Andrzeja Dudy z 2017 została pośmiertnie odznaczona Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski.

Przypisy

Absolwenci Wydziału Fizyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (III Rzeczpospolita)
Polscy fizycy doświadczalni
Polscy fizycy XX wieku
Polscy fizycy XXI wieku
Wykładowcy Wydziału Fizyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Urodzeni w 1945
Zmarli w 2016


Here's how we incorporate slow travel during our fast around the world trip.
By now, you know that we've cashed in every frequent flyer point we've ever earned - 80,000 each - to fly around the world. In economy! That's 9 flights, 9 countries, in just 3.5 weeks. Recently, someone remarked that I should make sure to take the time to enjoy it. Of course I will! Quick, compact trips don't have to feel rushed. I believe you can experience some "slow travel" on a fast schedule.
Slow travel is a lifestyle for many, and a trend for some. While it's often associated with value and budget travel (you can save so much more by staying in put in one place, avoiding planes etc), the movement is more of a philosophical one.
Proponents advocate taking the time to really know a location, forming connections with residents, and appreciate the history and culture. Their money stays the communities they visit and rarely goes to corporate entities. Their environmental impact is lessened and they can make meaningful volunteer contributions.
Slow travel, Hawaiian coffee farm style!
I like this philosophy, but it's not going to be the best fit for us on this trip. Our time is limited and we each have full time jobs, financial commitments, and Example Residents (Isn't he cute?) in our house to care for.
We also have diverse interests and we want to see as much as we can in the limited vacation time we have. We love unique experiences, cultures, histories, stories, food, drink, environments and we want to experience it all.
We are also "on the go" folks. We aren't the type to linger. Everyone comments on my "mission walk" - I am always on the move! We are visiting some new locations - going to Asia and Australia for the first time - and we want to get a taste for several regions as a base for planning of future trips.
Can you experience slow travel on a fast schedule? I think so. But any traveler can fall into a trap of trying to cram too much into a day. We want to enjoy ourselves, not be cranky and tired as we try to rush from A to B.
So I'm developing some strategies to help us stop and smell the roses as we dash around the world.
The Pros and Cons of Overnight Flights.
We're doing several overnight flights. This will be interesting! I don't usually sleep well on planes, so I plan on being drugged up a bit! I'm hoping to multitask a bit of transportation with sleep, rationalizing that it's better to have a slow and low-key day once we arrive after an overnight instead of losing 100% of that day in a plane.
Preparation can take more time than you think. Try prepping and organizing on your usual downtime (for me, this would be in the hotel room the night before departure). You would just be puttering around anyway - make it productive and don't waste your peak travel and sightseeing hours on routine organization.
Grab a coffee, and watch the tide roll in!
Making Jet Lag Work For You.
I'm also thinking of ways to turn our jet lag misery into time well spent, not time wasted in a hotel room, dead to the world. We managed to do this in Maui, planning on what do to when wide awake, so I'm confident that we can make this work the other way for when we're tired. Lounging in a cafe, a bookstore, a gallery garden, or a little pub, or sitting at the waterfront with a drink are all very low energy ways to recover from jet lag with little cost and little effort.
You'll be forced to stay awake, which is usually a good thing with jet lag, and the fresh air and fresh environment will be healthy. While you may not physically be doing much, you'll still be enjoying pretty sites or cityscapes, enjoying architecture or nature, and appreciating, well, stuff to drink!
We are often tired on day 3, with all the travel catching up with us. It will be a relaxed day for us and we'll take advantage of our "travel high" by doing more and seeing more on days 1 and 2. We've already tried to incorporate our Day 3/4 plans for this trip based on it.
We feel we get the most out of a day by travelling early in the morning. We've tried doing half a day in one location, travelling in the early afternoon, and then having the late afternoon and evening in a second location. Sounds good in theory, but doesn't work for us. "Half a day" becomes just an hour or two by the time you pack, organize, account for delays.
I've learned that I'm often more tired in the evening, whereas my husband can tire in the afternoon and gets a second wind late at night. Rather than arguing or forcing yourself into sightseeing when you won't enjoy it, I turn otherwise wasted time into downtime, balancing a busy day. I'll go book shopping when he rests in the afternoon. If he wants to go for a walk or visit a pub at night, and I am tired, I can enjoy my books, catch up on my writing, indulge in baked treats.
When you have no choice to travel mid-day, come up with a strategy before you leave home .
Is this the day to splurge on a private tour guide? Or maybe a spa treatment, opera tickets, or wine tasting? Can you securely leave your bags at the hotel after checkout so you can enjoy a few hours at a gallery before you leave for the train station?
Do you know the bus schedule well enough so you can relax and enjoy your morning without worry? Is there something unique or special to see at the airport -while you're waiting around? Will venues and attractions be open late afternoon and evening?
Think outside the box. Will a house of worship have an evening service you can attend, even though the daily tours are done? Many museums offer one late night a week - take a chance and visit a quirky one that fits your schedule.
We're going to be spending an unusual amount of time in Istanbul - mid afternoon to late evening. This is a good example when we can't travel at our "best" hours, so we're brainstorming ideas to make the most of our time. Maybe that will be the one night we splurge and just have a grand meal in a posh hotel, before catching the airport shuttle back to base.
It's not very relaxing to force yourself out of bed early to be the first in line for an art gallery. But this is what I always do. I feel like I get incredible value for my time to wake up early, grab some delicious pastries from an opening bakery, and quietly watch the city wake up as I wait for the doors to open. It may seem counter-intuitive, but sometimes getting yourself up early allows you the chance experience slow travel on a condensed amount of time. I once had the Musée d'Orsay - one of the most famous and renowned art galleries in the world - completely to myself for 20 minutes one morning.
It is one of my fondest travel memories. Years later, whentravelling with a friend, we waited nearly 3 hours to get in, starting at 1pm. The crowds were horrendous, and we were left with just 30 minutes to "enjoy" ourselves before she had to leave for her train. What an waste of time and money! Cut back on sleeping in, see everything you want in a leisurely, enjoyable manner, then delight in an afternoon nap.
In Cape Breton? Try a Distillery Tour.
I'm already planning to take some walking tours in different cities. I've loved walking tours ever since my university days as a broke, solo traveler. They offer great value, and combine exercise, socializing, and travel in one great excursion.
As a woman travelling alone, they were a great way to explore safely and confidently after dark and I felt a bit braver as a result. And, as an obsessive independent, list making traveler, it was a refreshing break to turn thing over to a guide.
Tour guides can get a bad rap, but they can also show you neighbourhoods you would never discovered on your own, especially if you're only in town for a short time. And they can also show you things that aren't always your peak interest and you can broaden your horizons.
I think the idea of a theme makes sense for a short visit. Food in Bangkok - wine in Australia - literature in Paris - buildings in London. If you focus on a theme, you can see and do a lot in a short amount of time and create solid memories. We always think, dream, breath coffee when we remember our trip to Hawaii and it's been a central interest which unites our trips there. I'm looking forward to doing the same on this trip.
Take a class. Even a short, afternoon class can be an escape from the tourist trail and a chance to indulge a passion. I've been reading up on afternoon culinary schools in Bangkok. We're only there for 2 days, and there is so much running around we could do, so many things to see. Or we could chase down what we're really looking forward to -food! - and make it memorable.
Finally, focus on what makes you happy. It's nice to challenge yourself, but it's your trip and your happiness on the line. As long as you're being respectful to local residents and the environment, I say anything goes. Go against the grain of conventional travel wisdom if it works for you.
For example, every guidebook I read said to plan for a full day at Pearl Harbor. We were interested in seeing the memorial and we enjoy history, but we felt that our visit was full and satisfactory after just a few short hours. We found it a very informative and moving experience and we took a lot away from our visit. It was the best fit and best choice for us.
I love mornings reading on bed when I'm on vacation - I also love making a list of 10 things to see in a morning and breezing through all of them. I could spend hours writing in a cafe. And I rarely spend more than a few hours in any museum -even the most famous in the world. I'm a history and art lover, but I feel I get the best enjoyment from a quick walk through in the quiet early morning, then joining a guided tour when things get congested.
What works for us may not work for you. We love a lot of planning, but allowing ourselves flexibility when we're on the road. No matter your style or your schedule, you can get the most out of your vacation and spend the entire time smelling the roses no matter what you are doing!
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I really related to your post a lot! I just got back from an 11-day trip to the Philippines and let me tell you, getting from A to B in an archipelago is no easy task! It's a plane to a taxi to a boat to a tricycle...ahh! I'm a slow traveler and live in Taiwan but I was conflicted by wanting to see everything yet also wanting to stop and 'smell the roses'.
I think the answer has to be the answer to everything in life, that you need to find a balance. Plan mornings where you wake up early, go to a museum, haggle in a market and get a lunch atand also plan afternoons where you just sit at the beach or even take a well-deserved nap. It's a balance I definitely still need to find in practice. I hope you can find the balance too!
definitely be linking to you and I'll let you know when it's done!
Thank you so much for your awesome comments. I can only imagine the transportation challenges of the Philippines - it must feel like non stop rushing, then endless, frustrating waits!
I think you're right about finding balance - you have to have both kinds of travel to enjoy a trip (I think!) I can't wait to hear more about Vietnam - I hope you love it!! Good luck!
Wow - you have this down to a science! I am a much slower traveler and am impressed in how you are piecing so much together! I love the idea of a theme based trip too! I was recently in Montreal and tried to pack far too much into it. Once I cut out the extras and focused on a wintery theme, I got out there and enjoyed it to the hilt! Will go back for the museums some other time - they will always be there, but the ice hotel - it melts come spring!
Have a great trip. Sounds amazing.
Montreal is so well suited for a winter theme, isn't it!! I find that sometimes I can plan a moderate amount and it seems like far too much. Othertimes I think the schedule is jam packed, looks like it's overwhelming, but things go really smoothly and we're left with nothing to do by noon!
I like your 4 day strategy of keeping busy days 1 and 2 and going easy 3 and 4. Great way to take advantage of your natural momentum!
Thanks! I realized no matter how carefully I plan or how much I work to beat jet lag, I am always a bit run down. So why keep fighting it? I figure it's best to go hard on the first few days with my travel "high" and keep it calm on days 3 &4.
I love the idea of planning your daily itineraries around your 'up' and 'down' times. Getting going to visit places early in the day can save stacks of time as you don't have to queue. As can pre-purchasing entry tickets.
If you are planning traveling by train in Europe look at overnight trains to complement your overnight flights.
Drinks in Sydney - sounds wonderful!! I would love to get to know the city's secret nooks and gems.
I've been looking a lot at pre-booking admission tickets to the attractions I know I'll be visiting. Even if there's a booking fee, you have to consider the value of your time, waiting in line. And getting more fatiqued and eventually spending more money on coffee- it totally happens!!
Are you and I related? LOL! Seriously, it seems like we plan and vacation the same ways. Almost everyone I know wants to go on a 2-week vacation to sit on the beach and drink. I don't see why I'm spending money for that, because I can do it at home and not pay airfare. I'm definitely all about getting the most for my money and doing as much as possible.
We generally travel in the fall when airfare is cheaper and all the kids are in school. It gives us the chance to avoid the crowds and see a lot more. There's also a scheduled day in there of taking it easy, due to jet lag or the inevitable meltdown of being with someone for 24hrs a day. On the third day of our European trip, I was dead tired in Paris. We got up for breakfast, I went back for a nap and when I woke up my husband planned a whole day for us. It was the best surprise ever, because we easily could have done absolutely nothing and wasted a whole day.
I'm excited for your adventures!
Ha ha ha - I love the beach, but I could never just sit on it either!?!? I'm working hard for this upcoming trip to try to have hard/slow days worked in. We're actually now planning some forced relaxation in Brussels. Massage therapy, chocolate shops, romantic restaurants. I want to feel relaxed, unrushed, vacation-y, but not like I didn't get to see or experience anything in the city.
We could totally be related - value seekers in Paris must share some DNA I think!!
Great post and I agree with you, two hours in a museum anywhere is more than enough. I can only take in so much. A quiet early morning walk is definitely on my regular list of a great way to spend vacation time. Have fun!
I agree - I've only ever had one museum where I've spent the whole day - The War Museum in London. It was fascinating!
I loved the post. It is nice to get a different perspective on travel every once in a while. The fact that you can enjoyably cram so much into such a short time is amazing to me. Kind of makes me want to give it a try myself. Very well written, thank you.
Thank you for you kind comments Dave! I've had so many long haul buses/trains/planes lately that it seems I've been getting my fill of the "slow travel" whether I want to or not, so I tend to hit the ground running!
I love this post! I struggle with over-planning but do find that it somehow gives me more freedom to fit in what I want, even on a short trip. For an afternoon/evening in Istanbul I recommend a sunset Bosporus boat ride - great and relaxing way to see the city! Or dinner at the Four Seasons Sultanahmet if you're really looking for an indulgent and relaxing dinner. Your trip sounds fantastic!
Thanks for the hot tips for Istanbul Lauren! (I'm always in favor of indulgent dinners :-). I really have to restrain myself from crazy overplanning, so it's nice to have some suggestions for relaxing and calming activities.